GCSE · Bearings

Bearings & back bearingsExam-style questions

The three rules of a bearing, measuring from North at each new point, the ±180° back-bearing rule, and combining bearings with right-angled trigonometry to find distances and directions.

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From a ship $A$ , the bearing of a lighthouse $L$ is $070°$ and the bearing of a buoy $B$ is $150°$ .

(a) Work out the size of angle $LAB$ .

The lighthouse and the buoy are the same distance from the ship.

(b) Work out the size of angle $ALB$ .
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